It’s no surprise that Aintree was called off this week. Matthew Holley reflects on what could have been and with a Virtual Grand National what could still be…

With recent global events The Cheltenham Festival really does seem like a distant memory. I’m going to be honest here. The festival is one of the highlights of my year. However this year felt strange. Looking back it feels like the last week of normality for me. As I avidly tuned in daily I knew that we were heading for a global crisis. However by watching the racing daily everything seemed normal.

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Welcome to Liz Karter who joins our line up of speakers at our Player Protection Forum. She’ll be talking about the Psychology of problem gambling in women. It really is time to take note. Statistics show that the number of female problem gamblers is increasing at a faster rate than men.

Liz is as a Leading UK Therapist in Gambling Addiction in Women, Author and Consultant Therapist to TV & Radio.

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Don’t miss YGAM and GamCare at the Player Protection Forum. Lee Willows, YGAM and Mike Kenward, Gamcare will delivering a joint presentation on the UK’s first national education programme. They will be covering the programmes progress to date, intended impact and how the programme will be evaluated.

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We’ve got a great afternoon panel discussion at the Player Protection Forum with Peter Murray, Director of Alexem Services moderating. The panel will discuss how to get our commercial teams to work closely with player protection. How can we build it into the core of our business rather than simply seeing it as an annoying box to tick?

So time to introduce the moderator and two confirmed panellists.

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Yes! We’ve got a full agenda up for our Player Protection Forum May 21^st. Last years event was a great success. So to provide a subtle introduction and a few thoughts on gambling in general we hand over to our Marketing Director Matthew.

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